Retro Game of the Day! Fire Truck
Fire Truck by Atari, released in the arcade in 1978. Is this retro enough for you?
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Interesting, allgame.com compares this game to Ridge Racer. So let me start the review appropriately, "Fiiiiiiire Truuuuuu-uuuuck!"
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It may look like an old-tyme popcorn machine, but really it's just an old-tyme arcade machine. Yes kiddies, arcade machines used to be in black and white!
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Not much to look at now, but at the time it was fun (hey,the screen was scrolling, and there was a recognizable shape on-screen, what else did you expect!) Still, it was novel and fun. Designed for 2 players, each player steers a section of the truck (front player gasses and breaks as well). I played it once or twice with my dad, before they removed it from the local arcade. Not a deep game, but it represents a distant point in arcade prehistory where you'd see interesting things pop up now and again!
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